Umesh Sharma Kau is an Indian politician and member of the

Bharatiya Janata Party The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP; , ) is a political party in India and one of the two major List of political parties in India, Indian political parties alongside the Indian National Congress. BJP emerged out from Syama Prasad Mukherjee's ...

. Sharma is a member of the

Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly The Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly, also known as the Uttarakhand Vidhan Sabha, is a unicameral governing and law making body of Uttarakhand, one of the 28 States and union territories of India, states of India. It is seated at Dehradun, the w ...

from the Raipur constituency in

Dehradun district Dehradun district () is a district in Garhwal which is a part of Uttarakhand state in northern India. The district headquarters is Dehradun, which has also served as the interim capital of Uttarakhand since its founding in 2000. The district ha ...

. In the 2012 Uttarakhand Assembly elections, Umesh Sharma Kau, then with the Indian National Congress, defeated Trivendra Singh Rawat by a narrow margin of 0.62% votes. In 2016, Umesh Sharma Kau along with other Congress MLAs rebelled and switched over to BJP.

Electoral performance

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Indian National Congress politicians from Uttarakhand Bharatiya Janata Party politicians from Uttarakhand Living people Uttarakhand MLAs 2012–2017 Uttarakhand MLAs 2017–2022 Uttarakhand MLAs 2022–2027 Year of birth missing (living people) {{BJP-politician-stub